"When you touch the pain of the world as real, there is a solidarity, an engagement with the Gospel, a living faith that blossoms forth."

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Source : "Pope Francis Brings 'New Gifts' to the Future of the Catholic Church". Interview with Ray Suarez, www.pbs.org. March 12, 2013.

Simone Campbell

#Pain Quotes #Real Quotes #World Quotes

“You've got to take the initiative and play your game. In a decisive set, confidence is the difference.”
“I have a responsibility to lots of people in my life. I have three children, I'm a wife, I have 60 staff and lots of charity shops, so therefore I have a responsibility to be well, I think. I have a personal trainer three times a week, I do yoga and I meditate.”
“The proof that man is the noblest of all creatures is that no other creature has ever denied it.”
“The moon is fat and the night air is so pure it seems edible.”
“Venice is like doing acid. If you can't take it with you after you either come down or move away, you were never really there in the first place.”
“The book known by the name of the Apocalypse, has seemed to be until now unintelligible, merely because people persisted to see in it a real prediction of the future, which every one has explained after his own fashion, and in which they have always found what they wanted, namely anything but that, what the book contained.”

Source : Charles François Dupuis (2016). “The Origin of all Religious Worship”, p.372, Lulu.com
“What are a handful of reasonable men against a crowd with stones in their hands?”
“Family life itself, that safest, most traditional, most approved of female choices, is not a sanctuary: It is, perpetually, a dangerous place.”

Source : "The Limits of Mother Love". The New York Times Book Review, www.nytimes.com. March 31, 1985.

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